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431. The Notting Hill Actor Cancelled For Backing JK Rowling - James Dreyfus

James Dreyfus made a name for himself in British comedy series and Notting Hill but recently roles dried up after he publicly defended JK Rowling. Here, he tells the remarkable story of how his cancellation happened, and how he did not see it coming. 

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What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold believes that, in an age of group-think and tribes, we need heretics - those who use unconventional wisdom to speak out against their own groups, from cancelled comedians and radical feminists to cult defectors and vigilantes hunting deviants.

Learn from my guests how to rebel, think differently and resist social contagion. From Triggernometry's Francis Foster and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to ex-Hasidic Jew Julia Haart and gender critical atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.